Pandas home range must consist of lots of bamboos, thick bushes for shelter, hollow fir trees for building dens and water. Each adult lives in an area of 4-6 square kilometres, known as its home rage. When the Panda leaves its mother, its first task is to find an area of its own. Their daily life does not involve much effort. ![]() The muscular system consists of many large muscles that help the Panda perform its movement. The Pandas muscular system permits the movement of the Panda. Without these five senses the Panda would not be able to survive its environment, helping them become stronger animals invulnerable to other species that surround them. They feel with their whole body, whilst eating, mating and moving around. The Pandas sense of touch is used in their everyday lifestyle. Other than bamboos Pandas also eat other plants like, weeds, grass and mushrooms, but rarely any animals. Their tongues consist of the same taste buds as humans, they can taste sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Pandas have a very odd sense of taste, their food source changed from eating meat to bamboos. However this sense is not widely used, as Pandas are non-hunting vegetarians and are friendly with other animals. They are able to hear predators from a distance. The Pandas are blessed with good hearing. Males also attract female Panda’s with their scent when trying to mate with them. Others will smell their scent and they will be able to identify the sex and age of the Panda in the territory. Panda’s rubs themself against rocks and trees on the perimeter of the territory to mark the area. The main assistance of this sense is that, it is their way of socialising with other Pandas. The sense of smell of the Panda is very good and as a result, the Panda’s lifestyle benefits largely. Blindness does not however affect the daily lives of the Panda, because they are non-hunting vegetarians and food is usually nearby. The reason for this is because most adult Pandas suffer from eye disease and lose their eye sight. Unfortunately with their slit like eyes the Panda eye sight is not much of a help for them. ![]() These stimuli senses help them to survive in their environment. The stimuli qualities of a Panda are similar to humans, it includes sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. Senses ( Sight, Smell, Hearing, Taste and Touch) Their seasonal movement are affected by the availability of bamboos, when food is nearby they travel as little as possible. ![]() When winter arrives, finding foods becomes very difficult for the Panda as the evergreen bamboos are dead. During the summer and spring the bamboos are rich of leaves and nutrition therefore Pandas eat as much as possible for the coming harsh winter. The Pandas spend great amount of time in search for food. It is also important that they have a good source of drinking in the area that they live in to prevent consequences such as dehydration. As a result they are suffering from starvation and are unable to get a healthy intake of food to survive. But because of the growing population in China the Pandas habitats are slowly getting smaller and less bamboos are growing in the area. Then the waste is dischargedĪ Pandas territory must contain a lot of bamboos to eat. The digestive system of a Panda helps break down and absorb nutrition from its food and convert them to energy for the bodies use. Their meal often includes rice, meat, egg, carrot, fruit, potato, milk, honey, bread and chocolate. Pandas in captivity eat wide varieties of food to help them get the vitamins and nutrients they need. However Pandas do not only eat bamboos they also eat other types of plants such as weeds, herbs, vines, scrubs, trees and grasses. Panda’s eat nearly as much as 50 pounds of bamboos a for 12-16 hours a day. Therefore to be able to get enough nutrients the Panda must eat extensive amount of bamboos. Bamboo’s is the main food source of the Panda, but because its digestive system is made as a carnivore it’s not able to extract all the nutrients from the plant. The unfortunate consequence of a Panda diet is that it only relies on one food supply.
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